CCB in Transylvania

Community Capacity Building

Community Capacity Building (CCB) is integral to the expanding way partners work together. CCB is a participatory planning process that helps communities identify their strengths and resources, prioritize their needs, and develop action plans to address those needs. UUPCC-trained facilitators have helped communities in India, the Philippines, Burundi, Kenya, and Transylvania use this process to identify and tackle community needs such as access to health care and schools, clean water systems, roads and infrastructure, agricultural programs, and economic enhancement. This work has been funded in part by the UU Funding Program of the UUA.

Getting Started with Community Capacity Building

Case Studies

Case Studies page - many examples

Transylvania Resource Guide (pdf)

India Government Programs (pdf)

It was heartening to see [the participants] eagerly going through the process so effectively and coming up with solutions both "baby steps" and big steps that they could identify would allow them to help themselves.

I kept having to shake myself as I watched the process. What kept going through my head was, "it's working...the process is really working!"

The process was quite seamless under the able hands of the…local facilitators. Their confidence of having "done it themselves" [will] inspire them to continue to engage.

You could actually see the light bulb go off in the groups - that in many cases they already had the resources among themselves to take at least the first steps they identified.